Selinda Canoe Trail

Highlights

The Selinda Spillway offers the ideal setting for Botswana's latest canoeing and walking adventure safari.
The Selinda Reserve offers 300,000 acres of pristine wilderness.
High waters flowing through Northern Botswana offer rare & exciting opportunities.
Remote location ensures a private and personal safari experience.
The area offers an abundance of wildlife and is well known for elephant, buffalo and wild dog.
Professional and passionate guides with extensive knowledge and experience of canoeing and walking in big game areas.
Excellent birding.

Camp Description

The Selinda Spillway runs through a secluded part of northern Botswana. Equipment will be carried on the canoes with to the camp site which will be of a rustic nature. The dome tents have been selected for their practicality as well as comfort and safety. The tents include comfortable bedrolls and quality linen. There will be enough chairs for guests to sit around a camp-fire at night and lunch will be provided along the way. Meals are prepared on the fire by the cook to enhance that 'old school' traditional camping experience. The ablution facilities will be bucket showers with hot water in the evenings and 'long drop' toilet and a shovel. Guests need to bring their own flashlights and due to the remoteness and nature of this trail, there will be no charging facilities available; this can only be done at Selinda of Zarafa if the guest is staying on.

Game Viewing

The total distance covered on the Selinda Canoe Trail is approximately 70km's. The area is well known for elephant, buffalo, sable antelope, roan antelope, wild dog and could very well come across cheetah, lion, leopard and variety of other species. Along the route guests can expect to see many species of wildlife without the disturbance of too many hippos and crocodiles.

Wildlife Activities

Canoeing.
Walking.

How to Get there

ExpertBotswana can arrange flights to Botswana from Johannesburg or Cape Town into Maun or Kasane, where most safaris start and end. Transfers from Maun/Kasane are done by light aircraft into the camps. Inter-camp transfers are done by light aircraft. Once guests arrive at the Selinda airstrip, they are transferred by road to the camp.

Child Policy

Children from the age of 16 are welcome on all scheduled departures. For guests with children under 16, a private tailor-made safari can be arranged which is subject to an extra cost.